Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [art] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 Isidore Mvouba was dismissed as Minister of Trade and Commerce after he failed to attend the first meeting of the Cabinet , attending instead a meeting of his own party , the ( formerly ruling ) Congolese Labour Party ( PCT ) . |
| 2 | She held the envelope to the light , squinting at it with one eye while she tried to read the first paragraph . |
| 3 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 4 | The acoustic front-end failed to detect the first vowel . |
| 5 | Without any shade of doubt , France deserved to win the first official Five Nations championship and — would have probably grabbed the Grand Slam as well — but for the Twickenham goal posts . |
| 6 | ‘ Ironically by the time we came to do the first episode again , my hair had grown a little longer , so it was n't quite as eye-catching , but even so I think it 's a very unrecognised feather in Doctor Who 's cap that we created the look which launched Vidal Sassoon on his road to fame and fortune . ’ |
| 7 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 8 | As they reached the trees they heard a wild burst of cheering and turned to see the first tongues of flame licking up the walls of the cainca . |
| 9 | Without this they could not communicate with one another , if each claimed to take the first place " . |
| 10 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 11 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 12 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 13 | Then he began to shift the first screen and leaned it against an adjoining stretch of wall . |
| 14 | I determined to spend the first part of my prison leisure working out my reasons for knowing I was right . |
| 15 | But rather than wait for the English to be lured on to these snares , he decided to launch the first attack himself . |
| 16 | Started to load the first mexeflote raft with ammunition for MV Puma ( a chartered merchant ship carrying ammunition to the continent for troops in Germany ) , at 0950 hours . |
| 17 | The speedway fans started a campaign which was backed by the local MP and raised a petition signed by over five thousand names … today the speedway rulers decided to reorganise the first division and keep Swindon in it … |
| 18 | THE United States and Russia yesterday challenged Arabs and Israelis to resume peace talks in April and agreed to hold a first summit between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin . |
| 19 | Further those who managed to survive the first university term did reasonably well but did not excel . |
| 20 | Blake managed to stop the first punch reaching its mark , but soon realized that he was also a target and a dozen people lashing out at him and his companion were not good odds . |
| 21 | He struggled to make the first team when we were in the second , and went on loan to a couple of spanish clubs , then was sold to some crap side for next to nothing . |
| 22 | The lavender hedge , as if in sympathy with their views , failed to survive the first fen winter and Sprogg 's Cottage remained Sprogg 's . |
| 23 | Mrs Pat Taylor , of Prestatyn , was one of 100 women nominated to attend the first North Wales Woman of the Year lunch , at the Kinmel Manor Hotel , Abergele , which raised £10,000 for the work of the children 's charity , Barnardos , in Wales . |
| 24 | Many no doubt sincere Christians continued to celebrate the first day of January in defiance of their clergy 's disapproval , or liked to greet the rising sun from the steps into the church , and , most of all , to attend the great festive games and shows . |
| 25 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 26 | Er on appointment , like other recruits , I had to serve the first month on night duty . |
| 27 | Ants had to play the first quarter one player short and did well to hold the Saracens to 9–9 . |
| 28 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 29 | I resolved to take the first thing that came along and from that base to look further afield if need be . |
| 30 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |